The audacity of hope

The protests over citizenship will continue to reverberate, and they will likely change India in more ways than we can imagine today

How magical these first few days of the new year are! How unsullied and scintillant with promise! We celebrate the coming of a new year because it gives us a brand new parcel of days to realise our hopes and dreams —  a fresh slate, as it were, to write another, better, chapter of the story of our lives. No matter how disappointing the past has been, every January 1 dawns as a potential annus mirabilis — a blessed year when everything might go miraculously right. It’s a time when our audacity of hope, our belief in the possibilities of